I Suck At Veet

Today is feminine hygiene day, or at least it is if you happen to me. In an experiment to use coupons to save a boat load of moolah, I went to Rite Aid. As luck would have it, I had a $3 off a $15 purchase at Rite Aid, thanks to partaking in an online survey on a prior Rite Aid receipt.

So naturally, my goal was to buy just enough over the $15 mark to get the maximum saving. This week, certain feminine hygiene products are on sale for 2/$5. Thankfully, there is an online coupon for $1 off of 1 Carefree product.

For anyone curious, users are allowed to print 2 online coupons per item per computer. Because I am a tech geek, I have more than one computer. Consequently, I ended up printing 4 Carefree coupons.

I probably could have printed 6 coupons, but buying a quantity of 6 Carefree pads was overkill. Karen and I (although most likely Karen) would have to find some creative uses for that many pads.

As it was, I thought a quantity of 4 seemed like a lot. Consequently, I needed something else to get my order over $15. Enter Veet. Now, I suck at Veet. Naturally, Karen thought I was absolutely bonkers for even thinking about getting the hair removing product. Incidentally, "depilatory" was never in my vocabulary until now.

To me, Veet served as a means to an end. Rite Aid has an in-ad coupon for $2. There also happens to a $3 coupon for any Veet product compliments of Facebook. (I guess that is one of the few benefits of Facebook.) Although the price varies depending on the Veet product, I was able to find the cheapest Veet product: wax strips, which retailed for $4.49. At that price (including tax), and with the two coupons, I actually would get paid to buy that item.

So, throw in a candy bar or two (because the candy bar was buy one get one free this week), and I was able to get my purchase just over $15. When all was said and done, I paid a handful of change for my entire order. The actual final price came to a little over $3, but I had $3 in rewards to use. Hence, change.

And if you are curious, I also made $5 in loyalty rewards from the purchase. So I like to think that the $3 rewards that I put in to purchasing all those items was returned with $2 extra. Not bad if I do say so myself.

The associate at Rite Aid was amazed at my purchase, although she was probably more amazed that I bought the feminine products than the actual savings. She did say that my wife was "one lucky girl", because she said her husband would never have done that. As a side note, I had no idea there were so many types of pads. As well, pads are tax-free in the state of Massachusetts... another interesting note.

Anyway, so now I am a proud owner of Veet wax strips, a product that I will never use. Add that to my growing number of useless items (like the Got2B mousse). I will have my stockpile of useless items in no time. I will need to figure out how to pawn these items off onto my friends... although asking my female friends if they need to wax may be a little difficult...